Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis